William James

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

Individuality is founded in feeling